How did Olofsson and Thompson earn a place in the top 6, but Skinner did not? Why does Reinhart play 20+ minutes and Jeff only plays 14?

I think hall goes with eichel. A lot riding on that, keeping those 2 happy. Move thompson, hes done the least, i like olofsson more with scorers.

Hall - Eichel - Reinhart
Skinner - Staal - Cozens
Olofsson - Eakin - Thompson
Rieder - Lazar - Okposo

More so trying to spread out scoring. Skinner gets Cozens who has looked pretty good so far and Eakin hasn’t been bad either. Olofsson needs all the help he can get at 5v5 and I don’t think Eichel and reino need a world beater. Thompson has shown decent flashes, giving him Hall and Staal could be a fun trio

Have you seen the lines in the last practice? Skinner is back in line four, nothing changes, Krueger is too stubborn and proud.

Skinners usage frustrates me. He’s played as our best player the first two games... what does he need to do???

Nothing, it's just that Krueger does not fundamentally put Skinner in the top 6, I'm not sure that a good coach would be so terrible at managing his players.